Mary and Philip

The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain

Mary I, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, was Queen of England from 1553 until her death in 1558. For much of this time she ruled alongside her husband, King Philip II of Spain, forming a co-monarchy that put England at the heart of early modern ...

Ideas of monarchical reform

Fénelon, Jacobitism, and the political works of the Chevalier Ramsay

This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683-1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay in English for over sixty years, the author uses Ramsay to engage in a broader evaluation of ...

The anxiety of sameness in Early Modern Spain

This book explores the Spanish elite's fixation on social and racial 'passing' and 'passers', as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards' anxiety that socially mobile ...

Power and reputation at the court of Louis XIII

the career of Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes (1578-1621)

This book seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, the controversial favourite of Louis XIII often maligned by historians. Kettering argues that the traditional historical interpretation of Luynes is significantly influenced by the testimony of Richelieu, who subjected Luynes to ...

Calvinist churches in Early Modern Europe

For ordinary people, the impact of the Reformation would have centred around local parish churches, rather than the theological debates of the Reformers. Focusing on the Calvinists, this volume explores how the architecture, appearance and arrangement of places of worship were transformed by new theology ...

The great favourite

the Duke of Lerma and the court and government of Philip III of Spain, 1598-1621

This is a study of the last major unknown statesman in modern European history. It challenges the assumptions historians have made about Lerma, and about Spanish history in the period. Lerma was the greatest patron of the arts in his generation. This is a work ...

The Malleus Meleficarum and the construction of witchcraft

theology and popular belief